Splat 2/4 |
P.S. (2004) |
"The screenplay, adapted by both Kidd and Schulman, apparently leaves out much of the book's biting black humour." |
Rebecca Caldwell |
Splat 2/4 |
P.S. I Love You (2007) |
"Pulling our strings is one thing; taking us for a fool is quite another." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 1/4 |
P2 (2007) |
"The majority of [director Khalfoun's] chase and fight scenes are so artlessly staged that they render suspense moot." |
Jason McBride |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Pacifier (2005) |
"Though [Diesel] has a definite, if somewhat oily, charisma, comedy really isn't his forte." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Painted Veil (2006) |
"The Painted Veil never really transcends a predictable, historical model of sacrifice and personal growth, and there's not enough of the latter." |
Liam Lacey |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Palindromes (2005) |
"In its own peculiar way, it is a more compassionate and useful religious document than Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ." |
Stephen Cole |
Splat 2/4 |
Palmetto (1998) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato 3.5/4 |
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) |
"Del Toro's latest is a darkly enchanting adult fairy tale, flecked with gore and terrifying creatures, both human and fantastical." |
Jennie Punter |
Tomato 3/4 |
Pandorum (2009) |
"Alvart's cynicism about the current state of mankind helps make futuristic Pandorum interesting, but what makes it fun is his evident enthusiasm and talent for exploring the conventions of sci-fi films." |
Stephen Cole |
Tomato 3/4 |
Panic Room (2002) |
"Yes, Fincher is stooping this time -- his posture may not be sublime, but he does manage to conquer most of our objections." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 1/4 |
Paparazzi (2004) |
Click here to see the review. |
Stephen Cole |
Splat |
The Paper (1994) |
"The picture starts to fall in love with its subject -- head- over-heels in love, until the acid drains from the wit and there's nothing left but sentimental ooze." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 2/4 |
Paper Heart (2009) |
"This breach with the audience does matter, for it is one thing to seduce your viewers and quite another to trick them. Love is all about trust, after all." |
Kate Taylor |
Tomato 3/4 |
Paprika (2007) |
"We're so used to current cautious commercial formulas, it comes as an enjoyable shock to see something like Satoshi Kon's Japanese film, Paprika, which reminds us that with animation, almost anything you can imagine can be represented." |
Liam Lacey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 2.5/4 |
Paradise Now (2005) |
"The director's two impulses -- to keep the audience hooked while illuminating the Palestinian plight -- never feel entirely compatible." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Paradise Road (1997) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato 3/4 |
Paraguayan Hammock (2008) |
"Squarely in the vein of Mozart's Requiem." |
|
Tomato 3/4 |
Paranoid Park (2008) |
"Shows typical insight into the awkward years." |
|
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Parent Trap (1998) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 2.5/4 |
Paris Was a Woman (1995) |
Click here to see the review. |
|
Splat 2.5/4 |
Paris, Je T'aime (2007) |
"Wildly, frustratingly uneven." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 2/4 |
Partition (2007) |
"Where the film stumbles is the script, overcrowded with bits of business and scenes that lean heavily on the symbolic." |
Jennie Punter |
Splat |
Party Girl (1995) |
"If bad behaviour and smugness were truly charming, Party Girl might be as much fun as it imagines it is. And Madonna might even have a decent movie career." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 2/4 |
Party Monster (2003) |
"Gracelessly executed, it throws out mock documentary, fantasy sequences and rapid montages, but still drags on woefully, and looks like it was soaked in dirty water." |
Liam Lacey |
Tomato 3/4 |
A Passage to Ottawa (2001) |
Click here to see the review. |
|
Splat 2.5/4 |
Passchendaele (2008) |
"The scenes may be embarrassing, but at least Gross can't be accused of playing it safe." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Passion in the Desert (1997) |
Click here to see the review. |
|
Splat 1.5/4 |
Passion of Mind (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
|
Splat 1/4 |
The Passion of the Christ (2004) |
"So obsessively and so graphically bloody-minded that it comes perilously close to the pornography of violence." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Passover Fever (1995) |
Click here to see the review. |
|
Tomato 3/4 |
Past Perfect (2002) |
Click here to see the review. |
|
Splat 1/4 |
Patch Adams (1998) |
Click here to see the review. |
|
Splat 2/4 |
Pathfinder (2007) |
"There's a fan's sincere hokeyness about Pathfinder that makes the experience relatively painless, in spite of the number of people who get tortured, decapitated or dismembered." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 2/4 |
The Patriot (2000) |
"Make no mistake about it: The Patriot is a cartoon, even if it does have real people playing the parts." |
Liam Lacey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Patti Smith - Dream of Life (2008) |
"Dream of Life barely hints at the transformational energy that Smith exudes in person, but it does paint a portrait of a defiantly creative life." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 2/4 |
Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009) |
"James, at his best when he lets loose, plays his character a little too straight and so loses some of the movie's comic potential." |
Jennie Punter |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Paulie (1998) |
Click here to see the review. |
|
Tomato 3/4 |
Pauline and Paulette (2002) |
"Although there's nothing profound about Pauline and Paulette, it does have a few memorably sly digs at the kinds of things we believe to be profound." |
Ray Conlogue |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Pay It Forward (2000) |
"Less a worthy achievement than a nice try." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 2/4 |
Payback (1999) |
"It quickly slides into a Lethal Weapon without Danny Glover, complete with blowups and wisecracks, gratuitous torture scenes and Gibson in familiar form as the twinkling rascal who makes a virtue out of viciousness." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Paycheck (2003) |
"With its bland central character, and collapsible contraption of a plot, Paycheck leaves little after-effect." |
Liam Lacey |
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PCU (1994) |
Click here to see the review. |
|
Splat 1.5/4 |
Peaceful Warrior (2006) |
"For a story that is supposed to be about gymnastics and Eastern philosophy, The Peaceful Warrior is as riddled with homo-eroticism as Robert Smigel's 'Ambiguously Gay Duo' cartoons on Saturday Night Live." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 2/4 |
The Peacemaker (1997) |
Click here to see the review. |
|
Splat 2/4 |
Pearl Harbor (2001) |
"The date that will live in infamy has been reduced to a movie that is mired in mediocrity." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 1/4 |
Pecker (1998) |
Click here to see the review. |
|
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Penelope (2008) |
"Perhaps the best reason to recommend Penelope is that it offers an opportunity to watch Catherine O'Hara in action as the alarming Mrs. Wilhern." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 2.5/4 |
People I Know (2003) |
"Dropped into this ocean of bathos, even Al can't tread water -- at that precise moment, he and his performance drown." |
Rick Groen |
Tomato 3/4 |
The People Vs. Larry Flynt (1996) |
"Thanks to the light humour, it's consistently engaging; yet minus that darker shading, it's never fully convincing." |
Rick Groen |
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